This course will enhance your knowledge of multimedia and your understanding of the role that the law plays in its creation, use, exploitation, distribution and publication. By the end of the course, you should be able to:

Identify the current trends and issues brought about by the advent of the Internet;

Define multimedia and understand its pervasive relevance in contemporary society;

Discuss/explain/enumerate/describe the responsibilities of the creators, users, developers and publishers, over the different elements constituting a multimedia work;

Understand the rudiments of the different intellectual property laws and identify lawfully protected rights over multimedia works;

Discuss and explain copyright protection and its important role in multimedia;

Analyze case studies with a conscious awareness of the legal and ethical obligations towards others, vis-à-vis multimedia works; and